Global higher education institutions face complex challenges of technological disruption, evolving student expectations, and financial constraints. Our consultancy provides targeted leadership development and organisational change management.
We offer customised programmes to:
- Enhance institutional adaptability
- Develop strategic leadership capabilities
- Develop your current and future leaders
- Optimise operational effectiveness
- Improve student experience delivery
Through our tailored consultancy services to support your strategy development, we can assist with:
- Developing your strategy
- Transforming your culture
- Providing the data and insights you need
- Tackling key strategic challenges
Our external perspective enables meaningful transformation by supporting institutions in creating agile, future-ready educational models.
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If you would like support with your strategic or leadership development, complete our enquiry form.
Examples of some of our work globally
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Services to Support Developing Leaders
Bespoke Development Programmes and Training
Our expert team will evaluate your specific needs and create a solution tailored to your institution. Co-developing programmes allows us to design innovative solutions that aligns with your goals.
Academic Leadership Programme
Available to be commissioned by an institution or a group of institutions. Participants will explore the nature of academic leadership; different leadership models and the importance of devolved and distributed leadership.
She Leads
An in-house leadership development programme for women leaders. Participants will explore the nature of leadership; gender equality within the HE space; and how they might be applied to different leadership situations.
The Academic Leadership Programme was very useful because after the workshop I am able to perceive problems more easily and also to react to them better, maybe more lastingly. I am grateful to the organizers for a new network of like-minded companions with similar challenges.”
Assistant Professor, Dr. Franc Dimc, Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Ljubljana
One-to-One Executive Coaching
We provide a dedicated one-to-one executive coaching service featuring a diverse group of highly skilled coaches from across the UK. Our coaching can be tailored to your needs and that of your institution.
Tailored Solutions
By investing in the development of strategies and nurturing current and future leaders across your institution, you ensure that your leadership team possesses the skills, flexibility, and resilience required to achieve immediate and long-term goals.
Leaders have different stories and the programme served as a rich interactive milieu for these beautiful female leaders to share their stories and take the others through their career journey. I believe that the marriage between being driven by the love of learning and the passion for change, having values such as benevolence and the love of knowledge transfer, and having personality traits such as creativity and emotional intelligence can create exceptional female leaders. We should always aspire others to lead. My leadership motto has always been: ‘Together we lead. Together we shine.”
Dr Diana A.Karim Aljahromi, Director of the Unit for Teaching Excellence and Leadership at the University of Bahrain (at time of quote, now Secretary General at the HEC)
Services to Support Strategy Development
Developing your strategy
Tailored support for every stage of strategy development, customised to meet the specific scale and nature of your needs. Our extensive experience in assisting higher education institutions with strategy development ensures we can provide the right level of support for you.
Insights: Driving evidence-informed change
We specialise in higher education research, offering qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches supported by extensive sector-wide datasets from our student surveys and leading statistical reports.
Culture Reviews
Our support fosters strategic adaptability by helping you reframe your purpose and enhance the delivery of core activities for future success. We believe that transforming culture and perceptions within organisations is essential for achieving lasting strategic change.
Accelerated Transformation Service
Designed to assist senior leadership teams during these challenging times. Our team of sector experts will collaborate with your institution to tackle a specific strategic challenge using data-driven insights and creating a customised, actionable strategic plan.
We were looking for something a bit different – not an exploration of culture with a report and recommendations, or an off the shelf short training/development programme but a longer term, bespoke piece of work that would enable my School teams to become empowered and skilled in exploring their own culture and developing it themselves with our support. We felt that Advance HE’s combined expertise in inclusion, culture, education and leadership made them unique in the sector and most likely to be able to deliver what we were looking for. When I spoke with the team there, they listened to our needs, learned more about our context and designed and delivered this programme. Having worked with them for over 12 months now I have learned that they also bring a flexibility and responsiveness to the context making this not only a bespoke and fit for purpose programme from the start but one that has evolved with our changing needs.”
Professor Sherria Hoskins, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Health, University of Portsmouth
